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Over the course of ten episodes Jackie laments JFK's straying eye; Eileen Parker sues her husband, Prince Philip's private secretary, for divorce of the grounds of adultery; and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is cuckolded over and over again.

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Origin and Etymology of stray

Middle English straien, from Anglo-French estraier, from Vulgar Latin *extravagare, from Latin extra- outside + vagari to wander — more at extra-

Examples of stray in a Sentence

stray sightings of UFO's, none of which have been rigorously analyzed by scientists

Recent Examples of stray from the Web

Six-year-old Kameron Prescott was shot and killed by a stray bullet in his home when deputies near San Antonio, Texas, opened fire on robbery suspect, Amanda Jones, 30, who was also killed on Thursday afternoon.

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